Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Bhutan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Freddie Wadling,
Terry Callier,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Duran Duran,
Cybotron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mantronix,
Rekid,
The Gap Band,
Bad Manners,
Neil Young,
Desert Stars,
Scratch Acid,
Eli Mardock,
Ornette Coleman,
Black Bananas,
Dual Sessions,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Fortunes,
10cc,
China Crisis,
Depeche Mode,
Delta 5,
X-102,
Faraquet,
Slick Rick,
Sun Ra,
Peter and Kerry,
Q65,
Minnie Riperton,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ten City,
Ronan,
Sugar Minott,
Deakin,
Arthur Verocai,
X-101,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Livin' Joy,
The Names,
Ludus,
Laurel Aitken,
D'Angelo,
R.M.O.,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Motions,
Swans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Leonard Cohen,
Trumans Water,
Accadde A,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barrington Levy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Henry Cow,
Yusef Lateef,
Q and Not U,
Yaz,
Robert Wyatt,
These Immortal Souls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.